Andy Walker / Android Authority Google’s products form the cornerstone of my digital life. The idea of ditching Gmail and Google Maps, in particular, is unimaginable to me. While Google doesn’t rule my life, and I’ve found plenty of more impressive alternatives to some of Google’s wares, including Google News substitutes and Chrome competition, some … Read more
Perhaps you’re coming out of a wave of layoffs or a down year. Maybe you’re preparing for a run of performance reviews where you have to deliver tough feedback. If you have tense conversations on the horizon, there are ways to prepare for it. In many cases, the anticipation of a high-conflict conversation creates more … Read more
Given the arrival of a new White House administration, federal agencies should view this moment as an opportunity to alter their approach to digital transformation to ensure they maximize the benefits promised by new and integrated technology. If the initial phase of government digital transformation meant deploying new software to automate old processes, the next … Read more
In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings. Booked a Valentine’s Day date for me and my wife. Scheduled a haircut. It did these tasks mostly autonomously, although I did have … Read more
At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But Matt Davis invites me to look closer. We are at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where Davis is an exhibition developer. As he shows me, there’s more to the diorama’s tale than a handful of … Read more
Stanford associate professor William Tarpeh and Ph.D. student Samantha Bunke working in the Tarpeh lab. Credit: Bill Rivard/Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. On a large … Read more
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The best smartphone cameras have come a long way. Barring differences in the approach toward things like color science, it’s safe to say that there’s a level of homogeneity across flagships from any brand — both in terms of raw output and feature set. However, once in a while, a … Read more
The Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid has left humanitarian organizations in the lurch, halting lifesaving services and putting the future of the sector at risk. Even if organizations find ways to continue their work, experts say the move puts the global reputation of the United States at risk. The Trump administration announced a sweeping … Read more
For more than 30 years, the Federal 100 awards have sought out and spotlit the people in government, industry and academia who have dedicated themselves to producing outstanding work on behalf of the American public in the last year. This cohort has proven no exception. Our all-volunteer group of judges poured through the hundreds of … Read more
Supercomputers are the most powerful machines of their kind in the world, capable of high-performance computing (HPC) to solve the world’s hardest mathematical problems. This isn’t just theoretical work: in the hands of researchers, supercomputers toil around the clock to further the fields of science, technology, medicine, and much more. The main benefit of supercomputers … Read more
